It's hard to order your new vehicle and wait... and wait... and wait some more.

It's doubly hard to suffer through the waiting when your vehicle gets a much earlier than expected production schedule, is delivered 3+ weeks before expected (was originally aiming for mid-December) and you are still deployed to Afghanistan.

But, at least it has been delivered and is now home waiting for me! My wife went to pick up my 2013 E92 M3 this afternoon and so far… it MAY be possible she is more excited than I am

I was hoping she could get some good pics of the car at the beach, however, it was crap weather and rain in Honolulu (she took a pic as proof from our condo lol), so I have to settle for grainy pics in the garage until the weather improves (hopefully tomorrow).

As part of "dealing with" my deployment, I’ve been planning a lot of mods and have set several stages for my new boy's development:

Stage 3: Still contemplating. "Murdered out" cars have been common, although I like the look. I think the complete ///M badge redo with the German colors adds a bit of differentiation. I know that many M3 owners prefer more solid colors and less ostentation, but, hey, oh well :-)
a. Either matte red or glossy red vinyl wrap racing stripes (see my poor artists rendering for what I envision)

And... COMPLETE!!!! Getting the wife to sign off on my Stage 4 dreams will take awhile; I already hear about how much I've spent on just the initial mods, but I figure in a year I should get everything installed and finished!

The good news is, as you can see from the pics she has a 128i that I just replaced with a new 2013 135is (currently waiting for production, delivery estimated for late November to early December) and she is already talking about getting some mods for it…. :-)

Anywho, thanks to many of you on here for encouragement, answering LOTS of newb questions, relaying and educating me on parts/processes, etc, and particularly to Bobby at Psyspeed (amazing customer service!).

Can’t wait to leave this s*it hole and get back to get in my new ride!